On long flights, unless you can plug the unit into a 110 Volt charger, it is almost worthless as a work tool.
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During the audit, the Taxpayer argued the loss should have been deducted as a worthless stock loss rather than a bad debt loss.
When that didn't work, he used other people's money to buy a granite quarry in Texas, the rights to a near worthless tungsten mine in Nevada and a stake in a small discount brokerage in Long Island, N.
When that didn't work, he used other people's money to buy a granite quarry in Texas, the rights to a near worthless tungsten mine in Nevada and a stake in a small discount brokerage in Long Island, New York.
May CDS holders will now see the insurance as a worthless piece of paper.
In March, the IRS issued new regulations allowing you to "abandon" a worthless or near-worthless stock you can't sell.
Numerous shoppers have purchased what they thought were iPads, only to open the box and find a worthless decoy inside.
Phantom shares are similar to counterfeit dollars that move through the system seamlessly until someone is caught holding a worthless bill.
The economic manifestations of this calamity are a worthless currency, roaring inflation, burgeoning foreign debt, acute petrol shortages and fearsome unemployment.
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Meanwhile their shares, which would normally be the most worthless securities in a default, suggest that the firms still have substantial value.
"Alcohol is a worthless drug that affects every single cell in your body, " says Harris Stratyner, director of addiction recovery services at Mount Sinai Medical Center.
Throughout the book he decries the allegedly low savings rate in the U.S., but this merely speaks to what a worthless measure our savings rate is.
They take the tuition and leave their graduates with a worthless degree and tens of thousands of dollars in loans, many of which go into default.
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Airline seats are a perishable commodity an empty seat becomes a worthless asset once the plane takes off and this fact of aviation life has sometimes led to ruinous price-cutting.
Jerry Jarvis, the managing director of Edexcel, one of the three big exam boards, has said that early adopters of the diploma risk emerging with a worthless qualification.
It seemed inconceivable at that time that the print book business with its half-millennium history would become worthless in just a few years time, so the predictions by industry leaders were that the venerable print book business would coexist happily with the augmentation of e-books that would allow people to travel easily with their favorite book.
Once a year, on Guy Fawkes Day, it tossed the "worthless" canvases into a bonfire.
Many remain empty, and their owners face a huge decision: whether to invest time and energy fixing up a home that may become worthless or cut their losses and find a new place to live.
"I was convinced I was worthless, unlovable and a fraud, " says Gerson, now 39.
The Globe is now a near worthless franchise, possibly with not all of the goodwill written off.
If you don't mind touchdown celebrations, it's worthless to get into a debate with someone who detests them.
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Management made horrendous business decisions like buying the Boston Globe at the top of its cycle, but now a near worthless property.
Then, before the iPhone, many experts said the small screen sizes and low data speeds of mobile devices made the mobile Web worthless and mobile video a total fantasy.
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In the Citigroup lawsuit, for example, lawyers needed to show that bank executives acted with scienter, or guilty knowledge, when they loaded the bank up with soon-to-be-worthless derivatives that were a byproduct of their mortgage-backed securities business.
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The vast majority of it, though, is worthless to us and a pretty good exchange for frequent-flier miles, better search results, a fast system to qualify for credit, finding out if our babysitter has a criminal record and ads we find more useful than annoying.
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But there is a mountain of worthless paper to clear up, and progress is still grindingly slow.
But this system is vulnerable to becoming a conduit for worthless information that is passed on for no other reason than tradition.
"If you got anything back at all, it was usually worthless, " says Gregory A. Ashe , senior staff attorney in the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the FTC.
Not only would this kill an important and valuable industry, it would have many other potential pitfalls, including games rendered worthless by the purchase of a second system.
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